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“They say fire cleanses all. In this, I begrudge being spared by the first men to cleanse my family’s history”

“ i still breathe the air of the last of us. I am insistence personified, and the spite I draw is my sustenance. “

“a child can long for a parent in a way that a parent can never long for a child “

“ To ignore race was to attempt to be white “

“In the songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy”

“ Old pain trained the body to miss it. Over time, flesh forgot the difference between what it had learned to tolerate and what gave it relief. “

“ he preferred being furious about losing his sight to mourning the loss of his dreams. Tears choked you. Rage kept you breathing. Anger needed air to fan its flames “

“ The inside of a rice wine kettle and grief had one thing in common: They were both pitch-black “

“ The doors are scattered around the train. They sing to each other to keep themselves from feeling lonely “

“ You boarded it at the end of all your dreams at a quarter past your heaviest sigh. The train caught you when you floated away “

“ Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died “

“ Love is sweet, but it cannot change a man’s nature “

“ Don’t think me small. If I’m ever fragile, it is only because I prefer to be “

“ I’m a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth”

“ Because I know now that my heart is a soft thing. What’s the point in pretending it isn’t? “

“ I roll my eyes at the idea of a demonic entity with a love of nut butter”

“ they say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor “

the way the whole first chapter of this book had my jaw on the floor..

“I was trapped in a place of being too old to cry for my mama yet needing her more than I ever had before “

“ Sometimes men are so dumb I envy them. “

“ The world will drive a woman insane, then point at them and laugh. “

“ you are beautiful, handsome, strange, ethereal , professorial, dark, an ocean. Rugged, dangerous.”

“a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is”

“He had taken off fathers face, bran thought, and donned the face of Lord Stark of Winterfell “

my heart is breaking

moms are so special 🥹

“ and when she accused me of wanting love, what she really meant was that I wanted to be saved”

““It’s hard to be what everyone wants when living feels like haunting.”

JAW ON THE FLOOR

“I’ve found that the whites of your bones are so lovely, they should be carved into piano keys.”